Technical Article

Using Oracle TopLink with the Spring Framework, by Lonneke Dikmans, shows how to build a sample application using Spring 1.2.8 and Oracle TopLink with Oracle JDeveloper 10g, step by step.

The Oct. 2006 Oracle monthly newsletter for Java developers is dedicated to Spring framework, and this is just one article linked to from this issue of the newsletter.

Getting Started With Spring 2.0 in Oracle JDeveloper is a well illustrated OTN article by Shay Shmeltzer which shows how to set up JDeveloper to use the Spring framework, and then highlight some of the functionality in JDeveloper that can make your development experience with Spring more productive.

Introduction to Spring 2 and JPA, a developerWorks tutorial by Sing Li, shows's how to create web-based server applications from scratch using Spring 2.0. The persistence technology used is JPA.

This two-part article shows how to build a simple Spring MVC based web application, taking advantage of the NetBeans IDE. It walks through the creation of the project, the wiring together of views and controllers using Spring, and internationalization of messages in the application.

• Creating a Simple Spring MVC Web App with NetBeans 5.0

• Creating a Simple Spring MVC Web App with NetBeans 5.0 Part 2
  

In Extend Your Type Transparently using Spring Introductions, Debasish Ghosh shows how Introductions (aka Inter-type declarations or mixins) can be used via Spring AOP to add functionality to generic data access objects. The same technicque can be used with any class of code to allow some reusable functionality to be "mixed in" to another class or object.

In Ajax based login using Acegi, Sanjiv Jivan shows how to implement an Ajax based login to your web applications when using Acegi (Spring) Security.

From the InfoQ article, Spring: Simple and Powerful: 

Spring aims to make enterprise application development as simple as possible. However, Spring distinguishes between making something simple and making it simplistic. The elusive combination is to provide simplicity and power.

In this article Adrian Colyer, CTO of Interface21 and lead of AspectJ, illustrates how Spring 2.0 and AspectJ fit together to provide application developers simplicity and power.  You will see examples of traditionally-difficult enterprise requirements met easily using these technologies.

Debasish Ghosh shows how Spring 2.0's @Configurable annotation may be used (with the support of AspectJ) to dependency inject non-Spring managed objects, in Spring 2.0 AOP - Spruce Up Your Domain Model.

This type of fine-grained dependency injection is possible even without the special @Configurable annotation by using an AspectJ pointcut expression and the AbstractBeanConfigurerAspect for AspectJ that ships with Spring 2.0.

Eclipse RCP Meets Spring: A Perfect Thick-Client Match by Stephen Lum is a detailed article from devx.com about the use of Spring together with Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) to create thick client applications.

Tsolak Petrosian shows how to expose an EJB 2.1 Session Bean as a web service with Spring and XFire, in XFire+EJB+POJO+HTTPSECURITY. The EJB is hidden behind a dynamic proxy that XFire is wired to.

Marc Logemann shows how to expose a simple web service using Annotations in Web Services with Spring, XFire and JSR 181. 

Basic Spring Web Services with XFire and JSR 181 provides additional information on the subject.